From the March 5, 2014, My Guide.com, Fort Leonard Wood.com by Tom Uhlenbrock.
The Missouri Civil War Museum is located in the oldest active military installation west of the Mississippi River in the recently restored building on the parade grounds at Jefferson Barracks in St. Louis. Jefferson Barracks has served a role in every major U.S. conflict from the Black Hawk War in 1832 to Afghanistan.
Some 220 Civil War generals served at the post and 15,000 are buried at its National Cemetery.
The four-story 1905 Post Exchange and Gymnasium Building has served as a gym, barracks and a hospital over the years before its closing in 1946.
It has now been restored and is full of Civil War artifacts.
--Old Secesh
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